| sora | <zoology> A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-coloured. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto. King sora, the Florida gallinule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sorb | <botany> The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. The fruit of these trees. Sorb apple, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree. Sorb tree, the wild service tree. Origin: L. Sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. F. Sorbe. See Service tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorbate | <chemistry> A salt of sorbic acid. Origin: Cf. F. Sorbate. See Sorbic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorbefacient | <medicine> Producing absorption. <pharmacology> A medicine or substance which produces absorption. Origin: L. Sorbere to suck in, absorb + faciens, p.pr. Of facere = to make. (04 Mar 1998) |
| sorbic | <chemistry> Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, CHCOH, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Origin: Cf. F. Sorbique. See Sorb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorbic acid | <chemical> 2,4-hexadienoic acid. Mold and yeast inhibitor. Used as a fungistatic agent for foods, especially cheeses. Pharmacological action: food preservatives. Chemical name: 2,4-Hexadienoic acid, (E,E)- (12 Dec 1998) |
| sorbin | <chemistry> An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance. Synonym: mountain-ash sugar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorbinose | A very sweet reducing, but not fermentable, 2-ketohexose obtained from the berries of the mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia (family Rosaceae), and from sorbitol by fermentation with Acetobacter suboxydans; l-sorbose is epimeric with d-fructose and is used in the manufacture of vitamin C. Synonym: sorbin, sorbinose, sorbitose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sorbitan | Sorbitol or sorbose and related compounds in ester combination with fatty acids, and with short oligo (ethylene oxide) side chains and an oleate terminus, to form detergents such as polysorbate 80. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sorbite | <chemistry> A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. Sorbit"ic. Origin: L. Sorbus service tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorbitol | <chemical> The polyol (polyhydric alcohol) corresponding to glucose. Occurs naturally in some plants, is used as a growth substrate in some tests for bacteria and is sometimes used to maintain the tonicity of low ionic strength media. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sorbitol pathway | A pathway responsible for d-fructose formation from sorbitol; increases in activity as the glucose concentration rises in diabetes. Synonym: polyol pathway. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sorbitol permease | <chemical> Not related to other sugar transporters Chemical name: proteins, specific or class, sorbitol-transporting (26 Jun 1999) |
| sorbitose | A very sweet reducing, but not fermentable, 2-ketohexose obtained from the berries of the mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia (family Rosaceae), and from sorbitol by fermentation with Acetobacter suboxydans; l-sorbose is epimeric with d-fructose and is used in the manufacture of vitamin C. Synonym: sorbin, sorbinose, sorbitose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sorbose | <chemistry> A monosaccharide hexose: L sorbose is an intermediate in the commercial synthesis of ascorbic acid. (04 Mar 1998) |